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Air Force photo by A1C Jonathan Snyder

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Air Force pilots and sensor operators who control the MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle during missions over Afghanistan and Iraq from the United States via satellite communications remain some of the most chronically fatigued aircrews in the service, according to a March 2008 study from researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Here an MQ-1 takes off from Ali AB, Iraq, Dec. 18, 2007.